Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Sep 13 17:59:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:45:31 +0300, Joe Abley said:

> And with many peer-to-peer applications, isn't the traffic  
> engineering already effectively performed at the edge?

"already performed ineffectively at the edge" is probably a better
description of the true state of affairs.   Remember that usually these
things bias their behavior in favor of the person running the program,
not for the benefit of the ISP who's moving the packets....
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